Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

[Michael Hennebry]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Thomas Wolff wrote:

> On 01.03.2010 16:24, Fergus wrote:

>> etc all to  no avail. And also I see the / after the listing:
>> 
>> ls -al /m
>> total 16
>> drwxr-xr-x  14 fergus ver_1.5    0 Jan  1  1970 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x  14 fergus ver_1.5    0 Jan  1  1970 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x  15 fergus ver_1.5    0 Jan  1  1970 ../
>> <etc etc>
> These are not safe checks. I've got weird directory names created myself 
> which contained control characters that rendered invisible...
>
> Do either of:
>    ls | od -ab
> or
>    ls | od -t ax1
> or
>    ls > ls
> and inspect the output with a binary-transparent editor (e.g. mined :) )

ls -abF should work.

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